cutntrim
PlowSite.com - Veteran
- Location
- Burlington,Ontario
Busy day today. Reorganized our storage garages for the winter. Took one of our snoways in to be serviced. Tested our salters. Lined up a new E-60 to replace the POS E-47 we've been nursing the past three years ($1400.00CDN including new wiring and installation) - expensive up here. Bought 2 new blowers - Honda 621's ($2150.00CDN including our taxes of 15%) - I envy you American guys. Put out flyers to our resi's about driveways. May seem late, but we had to see if there was any room left on our schedule first.
Finally, went in for a surprise face-to-face with a guy we quoted and hadn't heard from yet. He said he'd decide on the 15th, but obviously wasn't planning on letting us know he'd decided to go with another contractor. He told me he threw out the low and high bids...we were the lowest. The next highest bid was DOUBLE ours!! Never had that happen before. I explained that his location was very convenient, we plow next door and two more within 2min. Also, not too complicated, lots of room to put the snow, no difficult obstacles, large piles could be relocated on site, etc... Anyway too late now. Sucks to know we could have doubled our bid and probably have gotten it. Strange thing is we've had several bids rejected this year, and many in previous years, because we're too HIGH. Oh well, it's up again for tender in March and they're looking for a full-service 12mo contract over three years. We'll try again then.
[Edited by cutntrim on 11-18-2000 at 02:36 AM]
Finally, went in for a surprise face-to-face with a guy we quoted and hadn't heard from yet. He said he'd decide on the 15th, but obviously wasn't planning on letting us know he'd decided to go with another contractor. He told me he threw out the low and high bids...we were the lowest. The next highest bid was DOUBLE ours!! Never had that happen before. I explained that his location was very convenient, we plow next door and two more within 2min. Also, not too complicated, lots of room to put the snow, no difficult obstacles, large piles could be relocated on site, etc... Anyway too late now. Sucks to know we could have doubled our bid and probably have gotten it. Strange thing is we've had several bids rejected this year, and many in previous years, because we're too HIGH. Oh well, it's up again for tender in March and they're looking for a full-service 12mo contract over three years. We'll try again then.
[Edited by cutntrim on 11-18-2000 at 02:36 AM]